United States Ambassador to the Netherlands

United States

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Diplomatic mission

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to the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

consists of the embassy located in The Hague

The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

and a consular office located in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

.

In 1782, John Adams

John Adams

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was appointed America's first Minister Plenipotentiary to Holland. According to the United States Department of State

United States Department of State

The United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries...

, the same year came formal recognition by the Netherlands of the United States

United States

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as a separate and independent nation, along with badly needed financial help that indicated faith in its future. These loans from Friesland

Friesland

Friesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the ancient region of Frisia.Until the end of 1996, the province bore Friesland as its official name. In 1997 this Dutch name lost its official status to the Frisian Fryslân...

and the United Provinces

Dutch Republic

The Dutch Republic — officially known as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands , the Republic of the United Netherlands, or the Republic of the Seven United Provinces — was a republic in Europe existing from 1581 to 1795, preceding the Batavian Republic and ultimately...

, which have been called "the Marshall Plan

Marshall Plan

The Marshall Plan was the large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to combat the spread of Soviet communism. The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948...

in reverse," were the first the new government received.

The American Embassy building in The Hague opened on July 4, 1959. It was designed by architect Marcel Breuer

Marcel Breuer

Marcel Lajos Breuer , was a Hungarian-born modernist, architect and furniture designer of Jewish descent. One of the masters of Modernism, Breuer displayed interest in modular construction and simple forms.- Life and work :Known to his friends and associates as Lajkó, Breuer studied and taught at...

. Notable Americans such as former Presidents Adams and John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States . He served as an American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of former...

, General Hugh Ewing and Iraq Envoy L. Paul Bremer

L. Paul Bremer

Lewis Paul "Jerry" Bremer III is an American diplomat. He is most notable for being the U.S. Administrator to Iraq charged with overseeing the country's occupation after the 2003 invasion. In his role as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, he reported primarily to the U.S. Secretary of...

have held the title of Ambassador

Ambassador

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.

Besides the embassy, a U.S. consulate-general is located on Curaçao which is responsible for the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Kingdom of the Netherlands

The Kingdom of the Netherlands is a sovereign state and constitutional monarchy with territory in Western Europe and in the Caribbean. The four parts of the Kingdom—Aruba, Curaçao, the Netherlands, and Sint Maarten—are referred to as "countries", and participate on a basis of equality...

in the Caribbean, but which is not part of the U.S. diplomatic mission to the Netherlands.

Ambassadors

#	Name	Type	Start date	End date
1	John Adams John Adams John Adams was an American lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States...	MP	April 19, 1782	March 30, 1788
2	William Livingstone	MP
3	John Rutledge John Rutledge John Rutledge was an American statesman and judge. He was the first Governor of South Carolina following the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the 31st overall...	MP
4	William Short William Short (American ambassador) William Short was Thomas Jefferson's private secretary when he was ambassador in Paris, from 1786 to 1789. Jefferson, later the third President of the United States, referred to Short as his "adoptive son". Short, along with Jefferson, was a co-founder of Phi Beta Kappa at the College of William &...	MP	June 18, 1792	December 19, 1792
5	John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States . He served as an American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of former...	MP	November 6, 1794	June 20, 1797
6	William Vans Murray William Vans Murray William Vans Murray was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman. He served in the Maryland House of Delegates . He next was elected to the US House of Representatives from the fifth district of Maryland, serving from 1791 until 1793. He then represented the eighth district from 1793 to...	MP	June 20, 1797	September 2, 1801
7	William Eustis William Eustis William Eustis was an early American statesman.He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and studied at the Boston Latin School before he entered Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1772. He studied medicine under Dr. Joseph Warren and helped care for the wounded at the Battle of Bunker...	EE/MP	July 20, 1815	May 5, 1818
8	Alexander H. Everett	Chd'Aff Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were...	January 4, 1819	April 7, 1824
9	Christopher Hughes	Chd'Aff Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were...	July 10, 1826	January 28, 1830
10	William Pitt Preble	EE/MP	January 28, 1830	May 2, 1831
11	Auguste Davezac	Chd'Aff Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were...	December 30, 1831	July 13, 1839
12	Harmanus Bleecker Harmanus Bleecker Harmanus Bleecker was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Albany, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1801, and commenced practice in Albany. He was elected as a Federalist to the Twelfth Congress, holding office from March 4, 1811 to March 3, 1813...	Chd'Aff Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were...	July 13, 1839	August 22, 1842
13	Christopher Hughes	Chd'Aff Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were...	August 22, 1842	June 28, 1845
14	Auguste Davezac	Chd'Aff Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were...	June 28, 1845	September 16, 1850
15	George Folsom	Chd'Aff Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were...	September 16, 1850	October 11, 1853
16	August Belmont August Belmont August Belmont, Sr. was an American politician.-Early life:August Belmont was born in Alzey, Hesse, on December 8, 1813--some sources say 1816--to Simon and Frederika Elsass Schönberg, a Jewish family. After his mother's death, when he was seven, he lived with his uncle and grandmother in Frankfurt...	Chd'Aff Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were...	October 11, 1853	September 26, 1854
16		MR	September 26, 1854	September 22, 1857
17	Henry C. Murphy Henry Cruse Murphy Henry Cruse Murphy was an American politician and historian, born in Brooklyn, N. Y. He graduated at Columbia College in 1830, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn, where he became city attorney and, in 1842, mayor. The next year he became a member of Congress...	MR	September 24, 1857	June 8, 1861
18	James S. Pike James Shepherd Pike -Biography:He was born in Calais, Maine, was a journalist in the United States during the mid 19th century. From 1850-1860 he was the chief Washington correspondent and associate editor of the New York Tribune. The Tribune was the chief source of news and commentary for many Republican newspapers...	MR	June 8, 1861	May 29, 1866
19	Daniel E. Sickles Daniel Sickles Daniel Edgar Sickles was a colorful and controversial American politician, Union general in the American Civil War, and diplomat....	MR
20	John A. Dix John Adams Dix John Adams Dix was an American politician from New York. He served as Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Senator, and the 24th Governor of New York. He was also a Union major general during the Civil War.-Early life and career:...	MR
21	Albert Rhodes	Chd'Aff Chargé d'affaires In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were...	October 19, 1866	December 1, 1866
22	Hugh Ewing Hugh Boyle Ewing Hugh Boyle Ewing, , was a diplomat, author, attorney, and Union Army general during the American Civil War. He was a member of the prestigious Ewing family, son of Thomas Ewing, the eldest brother of Thomas Ewing, Jr. and Charles Ewing, and the foster brother and brother-in-law of William T. Sherman...	MR	December 1, 1866	October 31, 1870
23	Joseph P. Root	MR
24	Charles T. Gorham	MR	December 15, 1870	July 9, 1875
25	Francis B. Stockbridge Francis B. Stockbridge Francis Brown Stockbridge was a U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan.Stockbridge was born in Bath, Maine and attended the common schools. He clerked at a wholesale house in Boston 1843-1847. He moved to Chicago and opened a lumber yard. He then moved to Saugatuck, Michigan in 1851 and engaged...	MR
26	James Birney James M. Birney James M. Birney was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.-Biography:Birney was born in Danville, Kentucky, the eldest son of Agatha and James Gillespie Birney, who was a presidential candidate for the Liberty Party in the 1840 and 1844 elections. James M. Birney spent his early years in...	MR	March 29, 1876	April 20, 1882
27	William L. Dayton William L. Dayton William Lewis Dayton was an American politician.A distant relation of U.S. House Speaker and U.S. Constitution signatory Jonathan Dayton, he was born in Basking Ridge, New Jersey to farmer Joel Dayton and his wife...		September 26, 1882	June 8, 1885
28	Isaac Bell, Jr.	MR	June 8, 1885	April 29, 1888
29	Robert B. Roosevelt Robert Roosevelt Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, also known as Robert Barnhill Roosevelt , was a sportsman, author and United States Congressman from New York .-Biography:...	MR	August 10, 1888	September 26, 1888
29		EE/MP	September 26, 1888	May 17, 1889
30	Samuel R. Thayer	EE/MP	May 24, 1889	August 7, 1893
31	William E. Quinby	EE/MP	August 11, 1893	July 26, 1897
32	Stanford Newel	EE/MP	August 19, 1897	June 30, 1905
33	David J. Hill David Jayne Hill David Jayne Hill was an American diplomat and historian.Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, he was educated at Bucknell University from which he graduated in 1874. He served as professor of rhetoric in the institution from 1877 to 1879 and was for the eight years following its president. From 1888 to...	EE/MP	July 15, 1905	June 1, 1908
34	Arthur M. Beaupre	EE/MP	June 15, 1908	September 25, 1911
35	Lloyd Bryce Lloyd Bryce Lloyd Stephens Bryce was a U.S. Representative from New York.His father, Joseph Smith Bryce, graduated from West Point in 1829, third in his class . J. S. Bryce was a Union Major in the Civil War, engaged in the defense of Washington D...	EE/MP	November 16, 1911	September 10, 1913
36	Henry van Dyke Henry van Dyke Henry Jackson van Dyke was an American author, educator, and clergyman.-Biography:Henry van Dyke was born on November 11, 1852 in Germantown, Pennsylvania in the United States....	EE/MP	October 15, 1913	January 11, 1917
37	John W. Garrett	EE/MP	October 11, 1917	June 18, 1919
38	William Phillips William Phillips (diplomat) William Phillips was a career United States diplomat who served twice as an Under Secretary of State....	EE/MP	April 23, 1920	April 11, 1922
39	Richard M. Tobin	EE/MP	May 1, 1923	August 29, 1929
40	Gerrit John Diekema Gerrit J. Diekema Gerrit John Diekema was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.-Biography:Diekema was born in Holland, Michigan where he attended the common schools and graduated from Hope College in 1881...	EE/MP	November 20, 1929	December 20, 1930
41	Laurits S. Swenson	EE/MP	April 29, 1931	March 5, 1934
42	Grenville T. Emmet	EE/MP	March 21, 1934	August 21, 1937
43	George A. Gordon	EE/MP	September 10, 1937	July 16, 1940
44	Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. , also known as A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. or Tony Biddle, was a wealthy socialite who became a diplomat of the United States, and served in the United States Army during World War I and after World War II, reaching the rank of major general.-Biography:Biddle was the...	EE/MP	March 27, 1941	May 8, 1942
44		AE/P	May 8, 1942	December 1, 1943
45	Stanley K. Hornbeck Stanley Hornbeck Stanley K. Hornbeck was a diplomat, born in Franklin, Massachusetts. A Rhodes scholar and the author of eight books, he had a distinguished career in government service...	AE/P	December 8, 1944	March 7, 1947
46	Herman B. Baruch	AE/P	April 12, 1947	August 26, 1949
47	Selden Chapin Selden Chapin Selden Chapin was a career foreign service officer and United States diplomat.-Biography:Selden Chapin was born at Erie, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1919 and served in the U.S. Navy from 1919 to 1925. He married Mary Paul Noyes, March 30, 1927.He was...	AE/P	October 27, 1949	October 30, 1953
48	H. Freeman Matthews	AE/P	November 25, 1953	June 11, 1957
49	Philip Young	AE/P	June 27, 1957	December 20, 1960
50	John S. Rice	AE/P	May 6, 1961	May 27, 1964
51	William R. Tyler William R. Tyler William R. Tyler was a United States diplomat.-Biography:William R. Tyler was born in Paris in 1910. His father was an American and his mother was an Italian, Countess Elisina de Castelvecchio...	AE/P	June 23, 1965	June 20, 1969
52	J. William Middendorf II J. William Middendorf John William Middendorf II was a Republican United States diplomat.-Biography:Middendorf received a Bachelor of Naval Science from College of the Holy Cross in 1945. He served in the Navy just at the end of World War II as engineer officer and navigator of USS LCS 53, being mustered out in 1946...	AE/P	July 9, 1969	June 10, 1973
53	Kingdon Gould, Jr. Kingdon Gould, Jr. Kingdon Gould II , a great-grandson of Jay Gould, is a former ambassador, businessman, and philanthropist.-Biography:Gould was the third child of Kingdon Gould, Sr., and his only son....	AE/P	October 18, 1973	September 30, 1976
54	Robert J. McCloskey Robert J. McCloskey Robert James McCloskey was born November 25, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – son of Thomas McCloskey and Anna Wallace; died November 28, 1996 in Chevy Chase, Maryland...	AE/P	October 22, 1976	March 10, 1978
55	Geri M. Joseph	AE/P	September 6, 1978	June 17, 1981
56	William J. Dyess William J. Dyess William Jennings Dyess was a United States diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 1980 to 1981 and as United States Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1982 to 1983.-Biography:...	AE/P	September 2, 1982	July 19, 1983
57	L. Paul Bremer L. Paul Bremer Lewis Paul "Jerry" Bremer III is an American diplomat. He is most notable for being the U.S. Administrator to Iraq charged with overseeing the country's occupation after the 2003 invasion. In his role as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, he reported primarily to the U.S. Secretary of...	AE/P	August 31, 1983	August 25, 1986
58	John Shad John S.R. Shad John S.R. Shad , served as chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 1981 and 1987. He also served as the ambassador to the Netherlands. He had two children, Leslie and Rees Shad, and was married to Patricia Shad...	AE/P	June 24, 1987	February 23, 1989
59	C. Howard Wilkins, Jr.	AE/P	July 13, 1989	July 11, 1992
60	K. Terry Dornbush K. Terry Dornbush K. Terry Dornbush is a former United States Ambassador to the Netherlands. He served from 1994 until 1998.-Biography:Dornbush was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1933. He earned his B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University in 1955.-References:...	AE/P	March 16, 1994	July 28, 1998
61	Cynthia P. Schneider Cynthia P. Schneider Cynthia Perrin Schneider is an American diplomat. She was born in Pennsylvania, United States. She studied Fine Arts at Harvard University, where she received her bachelor's degree in 1977 and her doctorate in 1984. With her husband Thomas J. Schneider, she has two children...	AE/P	September 2, 1998	June 17, 2001
62	Clifford Sobel Clifford Sobel Clifford M. Sobel is a U.S. diplomat and former ambassador. Most recently, he served as the United States Ambassador to Brazil. He was nominated for the post by President Bush on May 23, 2006, confirmed by the United States Senate on June 29, 2006, and sworn in by Secretary of State Condoleezza...	AE/P	December 6, 2001	August 24, 2005
63	Roland Arnall Roland Arnall Roland E. Arnall was a French-born American businessman and diplomat. As the owner of ACC Capital Holdings, he became a billionaire with Ameriquest Mortgage...	AE/P	Mar 8, 2006	March 7, 2008
64	James Culbertson James Culbertson James B. Culbertson was the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands until 2009. He was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as ambassador and commissioned on July 10, 2008. He presented his credentials to Queen Beatrix on August 13, 2008.Culbertson has a degree from The Citadel, and...	AE/P	July 10, 2008	January 20, 2009
65	Fay Hartog-Levin Fay Hartog-Levin Fay Hartog-Levin is an American lawyer, consultant, and diplomat. She is the current United States Ambassador to the Netherlands....	AE/P	August 19, 2009	Incumbent

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